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2007-08
Season
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Friday,
Aug. 31
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The Grapes
of Wrath
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be introduced by Betty Grant Henshaw, author of Children
of the Dust:An Okie Family Story. |
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This remarkable film version of Steinbeck's novel was nominated
for seven Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Actor
(Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford
won the Best Director Oscar and actress Jane Darwell won Best
Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the matriarch of the
struggling migrant farmer family. Following a prison term
he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad returns to find his family
homestead overwhelmed by weather and the greed of the banking
industry. With little work potential on the horizon of the
Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads
for the promised land ? California. But the arduous trip and
harsh living conditions they encounter offer little hope,
and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other
they face.
The film will
be introduced by Betty Grant Henshaw, author of Children
of the Dust.
In her book, Henshaw recounts the story of her own large
family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl
era and their migration to California along Route 66.
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| 7:00
PM |
| Ponderosa
Hall |
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$5/ASB
Free
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Friday,
Dec. 07 |
The Battle
of Algiers
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| The
Revolt that Stirred the World! |
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A film commissioned by the Algerian
government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides.
The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has
something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence.
The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted
with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war
as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates
in it. |
| 7:00
PM |
| Ponderosa
Hall |
| $5/ASB
Free |
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Friday,
Jan. 25 |
Hedwig
and the Angry Inch
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anatomically incorrect rock odyssey. |
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Trash perfection. Flamboyant costumes, lollipop colors, and
glam-rock music come together explosively in John Cameron
Mitchell's movie adaptation of his Off Broadway hit. Hedwig,
a transsexual rocker, tours the dives of America in pursuit
of her gorgeous, successful former protégé (Michael
Pitt). Her band is called the Angry Inch (which also refers
to the result of a botched sex-change operation), and her
story unwinds in a series of monologues and rocking stage
performances. Mitchell's confident, nonpandering direction
brings out cheeky performances from his actors, and songwriter
Stephen Trask's tunes, worthy of Bowie at his gender-bending
best, wrap the film in loving, outré fashion.
-- Bruce Diones, The New Yorker
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| 7:00
PM |
| John
Muir 101 |
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$5/ASB
Free
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Friday,
Mar. 07 |
The Bridge
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| Be
afraid of what lies beneath... |
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People suffer largely unnoticed while
the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary
exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge,
the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those
drawn by its call. Filmmaker Eric Steel and his crew filmed
the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations
for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that
year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews
with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful
detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse
and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness
and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship
to his fraught and complicated material. |
| 7:00
PM |
| Ponderosa
Hall |
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$5/ASB
Free
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